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Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Episode 16 with Nadia Vaeh.
Award-winning recording artist and filmmaker. Owner of Galactic Cat Records. Documenting what "make it" means for indie artists in One Poop Scoop Away.
Music as a lifeline. Streaming math versus patronage. Ownership. Bitcoin. Midwest Bitcoin Summit.
Full episode:
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opens day two of Bitcoin Arts Park at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit.
Sept 24 · 12PM · Expo Stage · Columbus Presented by Bitcoin for the Arts
One-man band. Live loops. Real rock in a Bitcoin room.
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New long-form essay from Bitcoin For The Arts.
Bitcoin Was Never Supposed to Be an Investment.
Every well-meaning "how to invest in Bitcoin" post shares the same broken framing. The correction to bad Bitcoin advice is always better Bitcoin investment advice. That is the entire problem.
Fiat is a ruler that will not sit still. The entire investment industry exists because of that one design choice. If the ruler sat still, none of it would need to exist.
Bitcoin is a ruler that sits still.
The essay makes the full argument: what money is supposed to do, the pathology of fiat, why Satoshi priced Bitcoin in dollars anyway as a bridge for human psychology, the current Wall Street absorption threat, and why artists specifically are the corrective.
The ruler stopped moving. Look at the world through it. Everything else follows.
Read: https://bitcoinforthearts.substack.com/p/bitcoin-was-never-supposed-to-be
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8/5/2026, 4 engagements
Bitcoin For The Arts, Issue #19 is out.
The Bitcoin Arts Park lineup for the Midwest Bitcoin Summit is named: · Ainsley Costello + Short North Stage on Wednesday, September 23 · Andy Burghardt + Short North Stage interns + Lindey Magee's book reading on Thursday, September 24 · Shipwreck Shawn's paintings across both days · Proof of Print's live Bitcoin mining feed on the monitor
Plus a new Substack essay on our founder's origin story (Two Weeks Before Capitol College), a new featured artist story with @nogoodkid, and Share Your Bitcoin Journey now on Apple, Spotify, and via our Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed with Value-4-Value Lightning splits to the show.
Read: https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-19
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New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped.
, the British author, editor, and ghostwriter behind Totally Human Writer, sits down with Bitcoin For The Arts for a full conversation on writing, fiction, and community as the tools that actually change minds.
Philip is the co-editor of 21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain, the world's first Bitcoin fiction anthology, released by Konsensus Network in December 2023 and presented at Bitcoin Atlantis in 2024. He is the author of seven books in his own name. And he is the driving force behind the Gran Canaria Bitcoin community and its "Proof of Walk" gatherings.
Highlights from the conversation:
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New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped.
Alana Mediavilla, the Puerto Rican filmmaker behind Dirty Coin and founder of Campo Libre, sits down with Bitcoin For The Arts for a two-hour conversation about the making of the most important documentary on Bitcoin mining ever made.
She spent more than a decade inside Silicon Valley producing for Google, Apple, PayPal, Volkswagen, and Volvo. In 2020 she walked away, moved her family home to Puerto Rico, and built Dirty Coin from the ground up. The film has since been screened in over 200 cities through a community-hosted distribution model, and won Best National Documentary in Puerto Rico as the first English-language film ever to do so.
Highlights from the conversation:
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In this clip of - Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP:7,
talks about the value for value that Nostr provides.
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NEW EPISODE: Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 4
spent 17 seasons as a Soloist of The Royal Ballet in London. He's had roles by Crystal Pite, Wayne McGregor, and Hofesh Shechter. He retired in December 2025 after a career that started with a stress fracture and two titanium pins — and almost ended before it began.
He found Bitcoin during COVID while serving as a union deputy, negotiating dancer contracts and watching Robert Breedlove and Michael Saylor blow the lid off everything he thought he knew about money. The deeper he went, the more the veil was lifted. Then Bitcoin led him to faith. Proverbs 11:1 — "The Lord detests dishonest weights and scales." He saw money printing for what it is. Dishonest scales. And he saw Bitcoin as even weights and scales. Moral money.
This conversation is one I never thought I'd have. Two professional dancers — one from Alvin Ailey, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and The Lion King, one from The Royal Ballet — both union reps who saw the broken economics from the inside. Both Bitcoiners.
We talked about:
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We just published a new artist story on Bitcoin For The Arts:
— Dissident Beats from the World's Longest Lockdown
During Melbourne's brutal 2020-2021 lockdowns — the longest in the world — Matt picked up his instruments and refused to stay silent. He lost friends, employment, and was censored across every major platform. He doubled down, releasing raw dissident music for free on a value-for-value model.
When he discovered Nostr and the ValueVerse, everything changed. A censorship-resistant home where he could finally connect directly with listeners.
"I am happily returning the value I have received for my music back into the ValueVerse where I gain much value."
He's already onboarded two other musicians to V4V and Nostr. His advice to fellow creators: "Be brave. Risk being cancelled to express yourself. Embrace censorship-resistant protocols and turn your back on the platforms."
Read the full story: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/stories/matt-finlay
Listen: https://phafe.com/artists/mattfinlay/ Bandcamp: https://mattfinlay.bandcamp.com/ "Thin Blue Line" video: https://rumble.com/v2hr2hs-thin-blue-line-432hz-music-video-matt-finlay.html
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